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Nanoparticles Self-Assemble to Harvest Solar Energy

Creating an efficient, cost-effective, and flexible solar energy harvesting design based on self-assembled nanoparticles WASHINGTON, Feb. 21, 2023 – Solar-thermal technology is a promising environmentally friendly energy […]

Optical Fiber Imaging Method Advances Studies of Alzheimer’s Disease

Article: Epi-fluorescence imaging of the human brain though a multimode fiber DOI: 10.1063/5.0080672 WASHINGTON, June 30, 2022 – An optical fiber as thin as a strand of […]

Detecting, Exploiting Non-Line-of-Sight Paths for Terahertz Signals in Wireless Communications

Link to article: Line-of-sight and non-line-of-sight links for dispersive terahertz networks DOI: 10.1063/5.0039262 WASHINGTON, April 27, 2021 — If a base station in a local area network […]

Using Holographic Endoscopes to Observe Distant Objects

Link to article: Observing distant objects with a multimode fiber-based holographic endoscope DOI: 10.1063/5.0038367 WASHINGTON, March 30, 2021 — Scientists are developing tools to observe the biological […]

Moving Precision Communication, Metrology, Quantum Applications from Lab to Chip

Link to article: Photonic integration for UV to IR applications DOI: 10.1063/1.5131683 WASHINGTON, February 11, 2020 — The field of photonic integration — the area of photonics […]

Turning Light Energy into Heat to Fight Disease

Link to article: Quantifying the photothermal conversion efficiency of plasmonic nanoparticles by means of terahertz radiation DOI: 10.1063/1.5128524 WASHINGTON, D.C., December 17, 2019 — An emerging technology […]

Using Light to Speed Up Computation

Link to article: Novel frontier of photonics for data processing: Photonic accelerator DOI: 10.1063/1.5108912 WASHINGTON, D.C., September 24, 2019 — A group of researchers in Japan has […]

Kaleidoscope Mirror Symmetry Inspires New Design for Optical Tools, Technologies

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 17, 2019 — In a kaleidoscope, mirrors are placed at angles to create a visual illusion of multiple, symmetric images from one original object. […]

Miniaturizing Medical Imaging, Sensing Technology

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 17, 2019 – Scientists in Christine Hendon’s and Michal Lipson’s research groups at Columbia University, New York, have used a microchip to map the […]